American Lithium Laws: Across Texas, Louisiana and other mineral-rich states, it s unclear who owns the millions of metric tons of lithium locked in salty brines underneath U.S. soils, how the battery metal should be valued by regulators and who ultimately should pay to process it into a form usable by manufacturers.
Companies in the U.S. are ready to begin extracting lithium from beneath the ground, but the jumbled intersection of state and federal law has made the legality of doing so murky.
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality ("DEQ") and Crowleys Ridge College ("Crowleys Ridge") entered into a February 20th Consent.
The Great American Eclipse is coming to Newton County on April 8. A large number of visitors are anticipated to arrive days before the event to get a choice viewing space. Some property owners are …